ON SOCIAL CONCERN / SOLLICITUD

O REI SOCIALIS,(ENCYCLICAL)

Pope John Paul IIs encyclical letter commemorates the twentieth anniversary of Pope Paul VIs Populorum Progressio and reaffirms the continuity of the Churchs teaching on social doctrine. Also Available On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (Centesimus Annus) Pope John Paul IIs encyclical on social justice discusses the state of economic systems throughout the world, commenting on capitalism and the demise of communism. No. 436-8, 116 pp. Contemporary Catholic Social Teaching Contains Pope Leo XIIIs encyclical Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of Workers) and the two documents that have rephrased that message over the last century, Pius XIs Quadragesimo Anno (On Reconstructing the Social Order) and the U.S. bishops A Century of Social Teaching.